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Cleveland Browns aren't the only Ohio sports team that deserves investment | Our view
2025-04-29 10:45:02| Spiritual Career Counseling
An unprecedented plan to issue $600 million in state bonds to help build a dome stadium for the billionaire owners of the NFL's Cleveland Browns smells as bad as the team's on-field performance.We don't oppose some state support for a new Browns stadium and see an all-season facility as a potential game changer for northeast Ohio. Whether the stadium belongs in suburban Brook Park or downtown Cleveland is for Browns' owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam and the good people of northeast Ohio to decide.But House Speaker Matt Huffman and his Republican colleagues are wrong to risk $600 million plus interest for just one of Ohio's many professional teams, while ignoring Gov. Mike DeWine's smart and responsible sports gambling tax increase to help teams across Ohio.The Browns want to scrap their 26-year-old lakefront stadium paid for by taxpayers.At the same time, their rivals in Cincinnati are working on a deal for $1.25 billion in renovations to 25-year-old Paycor Stadium, the taxpayer-owned home...
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